It's your right
When the constitution was created certain unalienable rights were included to ensure that safety, justice, and liberty were guaranteed to all citizens. Each author had great consideration for the welfare of Americans. because they valued citizens and demanded a government that did the same, they published the Bill of Rights. This formal document lists the fundamental rights guaranteed to all law abiding citizens of the United States of America (Source). This includes but is not limited to freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, petition, unreasonable search and seizure and the right to keep and bear arms (Source). They knew the right to keep and bear arms was so important they stated directly that it "shall not be infringed." The founding fathers published this document with the direct intention to allow such an act that many schools declare illegal, and they gave us this template to help us in these situations of disagreement. It is clear that the right to keep and bear arms is the right of all law abiding citizens in the United States, and does not end at any arbitrary boundary.
U.S. Supreme Court Case
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The Supreme Court's Ruling
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The Second Amendment protects an individuals right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense.
Chicago handgun ban was declared invalid according to the Second Amendment. It was unanimously decided that the Second Amendment was an individual right. This is because the term "the people" in this amendment possessed the same meaning as it is found in the Preamble as well as in the First, Fourth, and Ninth Amendments. "The People" in all these contexts refers to all citizens and legal-aliens whithin the United States. |
U.S. Court of Appeals
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The Court's Ruling
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The Court again recognized the right to keep and bear arms was guaranteed to individuals.
The Second Amendment guarantees to all Americans their right to keep and bear arms. No legal consequence can be given to a non-felon with possession of a shotgun. Possession of a firearm is legal for law-abiding honorable citizens. But it is not an apostle right guaranteed to untrustworthy citizens such as convinced felons and persons dishonorably discharged form the military. |
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